228 GRAY.

miles on this side Terracina. 'tis I believe here
as perfect as anywhere, not alone the midway for
carriages remains, which is just of a breadth for
2 carriages to pass, but the raised causeway on each
side for foot-passengers, the whole of a greyish coarse
marble, the pieces of Irregular Shapes generally a
foot or two, sometimes more in breadth, laid as they
suit one another best, the side ways are raised
better than a foot above the middle. Statius gives a
good description of these immense labours in the
4th Book of his Sylvse, 3.

Hie primus labor inclioare sulco1,
Et rescindere limites, & alto
Egestu penitus cavare terras:
Mox haustas aliter replere fossas,
Et summo gremium parare dorso,
Ne nutent sola, ne maligna sedes,
Et pressis dubium cubile saxis;
Tune umbornbus hinc et hinc coactis,
Et crebris iter allegare1 gomphis.
0 quantse pariter manus laborant!
Hi csedunt nemus, exuuntq. montes;
Hi ferro scopulos, trabesq. csedunt;
IUi saxa ligant, opusq texunt
Cocto pulvere, sordidoq topho:
Hi siccant bibulas manu lacunas,
Et longŁ fluvios agunt minores.

There are frequent ruins on each hand of it, not
only of Sepulchres, but the foundations of larger
buildings, & arched vaults of brick disposed Particu-
1 Sic ap. Gray.s by reason of the waters, that